Sontag wis active in writin an speakin aboot, or travellin tae, auries o conflict, includin during the Vietnam War an the Siege o Sarajevo. She wrote extensively aboot photografie, cultur an media, AIDS an illness, human richts, an communism an leftist ideology. Awtho her essays an speeches whiles drew controversy,[2] she haes been descrived as "ane o the maist influential creetics o her generation."[3]